Homicides reported in 2016 in the counties of Santa Clara, San Mateo, San Francisco, Alameda and Contra Costa. Red dots indicate shootings, yellow dots are stabbings, blue are other methods. Click on a dot for more details of the incident. Links to the Bay Area News Group articles about the crimes are below.

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Investigators believe a Russian couple knocked their victims out with sedatives, then skinned them alive. Afterward, police say, they ate parts of their victims, froze the remains or packed them in jars filled with saline solution.

The city’s lawsuit in a California court accuses Equifax of violating state law by failing to implement reasonable security measures and not providing timely notice of the breach. It seeks tens of millions of dollars in civil penalties as well as restitution for some consumers.

A four-alarm wild fire in the Oakland Hills on Tuesday caused evacuations to at least 100 homes and threatened at least 30 of them, fire officials said, sparking memories of the inferno there 26 years ago.

It was not immediately clear Tuesday whether former head basketball coach David Wojcik’s departure after leading San Jose State’s most successful team in six years had anything to do with his alleged treatment of student Gary Williams Jr.